``How can a total stranger understand you better than the people you've known your entire life?`` When Lance's '93 Buick breaks down in the middle of nowhere, he tells himself Don't panic .
After all, he's valedictorian of his class.
First-chair trumpet player.
Scholarship winner.
Nothing can stop Lance Hendricks.
But the locals don't know that.
They don't even know his name.
Stuck in a small town, Lance could be anyone: a delinquent, a traveler, a maniac.